# Secondary drive mounted but Discourse not using it

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [December 2, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/secondary-drive-mounted-but-discourse-not-using-it/390211 "2025-12-02T21:51:30Z")\
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Did you rsync or move the existing images there? Do you not want the existing images? They are in the default directory.

File permissions?

I think you’ll need to rebuild to get it to make the default directory where the uploads go.

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